Word: drank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIFE OF DYLAN THOMAS, by Constantine FitzGibbon. Besides being a genius, Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas was also a perennial problem child who mooched off his friends and slept with their wives, ignored his children, and drank ceaselessly. FitzGibbon, a friend of Thomas', brings the two images brilliantly into focus as he follows the poet from a spoiled childhood through a tempestuous marriage to a premature death in America from an overdose of whisky...
...grand Charles called radio and television crews into the Elysee Palace's Salle des Fetes two hours before that. Then, for eight minutes, he spoke forcefully and eloquently into the cameras and microphones. After an instant replay to assure that the proper grandeur had been captured, De Gaulle drank a champagne toast with the 25 technicians, then ordered them not to leave the premises until broadcast time-to ensure that the decision would not leak in advance...
...number of latrines, mostly unfinished or just begun. And we took a look at the source of water, a fetid, sandy pond, covered with insects. I asked if they drank it like that, and our interpreter said yes--after letting it settle a few minutes. Much discussion during the day of their building a permanent cement well, but they are skeptical...
...they were heading off into the forest, and invited me to come along. We We walked to a small clearing where two palm trees had been felled, and they collected the palm wine from gourds that had been under the cut. We sat in the shade and drank the palm wine. One of the men explained to me, half joking, the importance of this drink to village life. It's cheap--25 francs for a groundful. In the morning, the men eat a little manioc, and empty a gourd of palm wine. Then, juiced up, they take a machete...
...merriest fund-raising functions ever. At San Diego's community auditorium, the auction was set in motion at 7:30 p.m. by COMBO President Robert Peterson and did not stop until the last thump of the gavel at 3:30 a.m. Meanwhile, 750 diners ate, drank, laughed and shouted themselves hoarse...